Sheepshead Walk

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Sep 12, 20268:24Science & Medicine

A lot of this vision of a more "open access" Ireland might seem unachievable. But there is an example of farmers opening up access to the public and everybody getting along. The Sheepshead Way was created 30 years ago th...

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